Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

Archaeologists in Dahwa, Oman, found two strange discs that turned out to be a rare 4,000-year-old musical instrument, ...

The researchers, along with Egyptian archaeologists, unearthed an ancient tomb of an as-of-yet unidentified pharaoh. A press release from the Penn Museum in Philadelphia details how — together ...

Long before the Earth formed, the universe was full of gases left over from the Big Bang. New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed early signs of light breaking through this ...

Penn hired Fran McCaffery as its men's basketball coach Thursday, two weeks after he was fired at Iowa after a season in which the Hawkeyes won their fewest games and had their lowest Big Ten ...

A lesser-known period in Egyptian history has just been unearthed. Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists, alongside the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, have discovered a massive ...

Archaeologists in Egypt recently found the tomb of an unknown pharaoh who ruled during a turbulent period about 3,600 years ago, the Penn Museum said ... known era when ancient Egypt was divided ...

“It’s a new chapter in investigating this dynasty,” Josef Wegner, a curator at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia ... the actions of ancient grave robbers had rendered it illegible.

Former Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery didn't stay unemployed for long, as he was named the new head coach at Penn on Thursday, according to ESPN. If you were looking for a perfect coach to ...

The British Museum is about to embark on a world first in ‘Ancient India: Living Traditions’. The new exhibition is the first ever to consider early Indian sacred art through a global, pluralistic ...